Statistics Vocabulary
The study of planning studies and experiments; obtaining data; and organizing, summarizing, presenting, analyzing and interpreting those data and then drawing conclusions based on them.
What is Statistics?
What is a numerical measurement describing some characteristic of a sample?
What is Statistic?
Involves names or labes, implies categories
What is Qualitative?
Height of basketballers
What is Quantitative, Continuous
Usually managed by software
What is big data?
Complete collection of all measurements or data (objects or people) that are being considered/studied.
What is Population.
What is a numerical measurement describing some characteristic of a population?
What is Parameter
Can be measured numerically
What is Quantitative?
Tshirt Sizes ( XS, S, M, L , XL)
What is Qualitative, Ordinal
Data intentionally not answer on a questionnaire results in ...
What is Missing data?
Subset of a collection of objects/memebers being studied
What is Sample?
How many Levels of Measurement are used to classify data?
What is 4?
Another name for Categorical
What is Qualitative?
Types of Cars
What is Qualitative,Nominal
Data tracked by GPS?
What is Big data?
Collection of observations, such as measurements, genders, or survey responses.
What is Data?
How many main/major groups of data are there?
Two
Two types of Qualitative Variables?
What are Ordinal and Nominal?
Number of students in class
What is Quantitative, Discrete
Selecting 10 schools at random from a city and surveying all the students in those selected schools. How would you describe the numerical measurement collected?
What is parameter?
What is the singular form of the word "data"?
What is datum.
What is a collection of data from every member of the population?
What is census?
Two types of Quantitative Statistics
What are Discrete and Continuous?
Passwords
What is Qualitative, nominal
Dividing a population of college students based on their majors then randomly selecting a proportional number of students from each group. How would you describe the "randomly selected students"
What is a sample?